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25 Jan 2024, 6:06 pm by The White Law Group
REITs pool the capital of numerous investors to purchase a portfolio of properties such as hotels, shopping centers or apartments. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 5:40 am by Neil Wilkof
The importance of the High Court decision lies in Goh JC’s pronouncement of much-needed clarification on the meaning of “distinctiveness” in Singapore trade mark law, and the role of acquired distinctiveness in the “step-by-step” approach endorsed by the Court of Appeal in the seminal case of Staywell Hospitality Group Pty Ltd v Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc and another and another appeal [2014] 1 SLR 911 (“Staywell”). [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 6:30 am
 In both cases (the other being Sorenson, relating to the hacking of Marriott’s hotel reservation system), Caremark claims were asserted following a cybersecurity attack by third party hackers that exposed customers’ personal information. [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 6:30 am
 In both cases (the other being Sorenson, relating to the hacking of Marriott’s hotel reservation system), Caremark claims were asserted following a cybersecurity attack by third party hackers that exposed customers’ personal information. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 9:05 pm by Gabriele Lattanzio
In 2017, Verizon cut its purchase price for Yahoo’s internet business by $350 million after Yahoo disclosed three massive data breaches compromising more than one billion customer accounts.[2]Similarly, Marriott Hotels was fined $23.8 million for a data breach at the Starwood Hotels group two years before Marriott acquired the group. [read post]
13 Aug 2022, 5:51 pm by assoulineberlowe
Elias took photographs for hotels owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 5:24 am by Kevin LaCroix
  Background In 2016, Marriott merged with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 7:34 am by Vishnu V. Shankar and Paul Hughes
Notable fines have included the ~US$25m fine levied in October 2020 by the UK’s GDPR regulator against Marriott International for alleged cybersecurity failures in connection with its acquisition of Starwood Hotels. [read post]
21 Dec 2021, 6:00 am by K. Tyler O'Connell
The Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed pursuant to Rule 23.1 derivative claims arising from the hack of roughly 500 million users’ personal data following Marriott’s 2016 acquisition of Starwood Hotels and Resorts – one of the largest hacks ever, an event that spawned lawsuits and governmental investigations. [read post]
7 Oct 2021, 2:08 pm by Kevin LaCroix
The breach, which Marriott later determined had begun in 2014, pertained to the reservation system of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, which Marriott acquired in 2016. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 2:55 am by Daniel Jin
Background Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. was subject to a cyber-attack in 2014 from an unknown source which remained undetected until September 2018 during which time the attacker had widespread access to Starwood’s guest card holder data. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 4:35 pm by INFORRM
  Marriott estimates that 339 million guest records worldwide were affected following a cyber-attack in 2014 on Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 2:41 pm by Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
The security breach suffered by Marriott, which stemmed from a 2014 cyberattack on Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 2:28 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Since then, Marriott claims that attackers who breached its Starwood Hotels unit’s guest reservation system stole personal data from up to 383 million guests — including more than five million unencrypted passport numbers. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 2:18 pm by Kevin LaCroix
John Reed StarkIs a company’s post-breach forensic report subject to discovery in subsequent breach related litigation? [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 11:35 pm
The present case is also significant from a broader perspective, as it is the latest instalment in a line of cases that have progressively relaxed the rigid stance against considering acquired distinctiveness in the marks-similarity assessment.In Staywell Hospitality Group v Starwood Hotels [2014] 1 SLR 911 ("Staywell"), the Singapore Court of Appeal held that the mark-similarity assessment must be conducted purely on a mark-to-mark basis, with extraneous factors such as… [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 8:00 am by Laila Paszti (Toronto)
The Marriott breach occurred on IT infrastructure Marriott inherited through its acquisition of the Starwood hotels group in 2016. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 9:52 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Grimm, of the United States Federal District Court for the District of Maryland, who oversees class action litigation arising out of last year’s data breach of Marriott’s Starwood guest reservation database. [read post]
8 Aug 2019, 11:08 am by Robert E. Braun
As was widely reported, in November 2018, Marriott disclosed that hackers accessed the Starwood guest reservation database since 2014. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 3:00 am by John Jenkins
  The UK Information Commissioner’s Office brought home some of the risks of inadequate diligence in this area when it announced its intention to impose a £99 Million fine on Marriott for GDPR violations associated with a data breach at Starwood Hotels, which Marriott […] [read post]